*How to Effectively Check and Address Plagiarism in Your Paper* Writing original work is crucial for academic success, but unintentional similarities can still creep in. That's why plagiarism detection tools are important. They compare your draft against published works to identify similarities, helping you address them and ensure the academic integrity of your submission. Nonetheless, plagiarism check reports can sometimes leave you with more questions than answers. 🔥Here’s how you can confidently navigate them. ✅ *Understanding and Addressing the Plagiarism Check Report* 🔰Step 1: Check Your Paper for Similarity. Even after a thorough review of your draft, running a plagiarism check is an essential precaution. This prevents surprises if your journal or institution detects a high similarity score when they screen your manuscript. Head over to Paperpal's Plagiarism Checker or Turnitin and upload your draft to get a similarity report. 🔰Step 2: Understand Your Similarity Report First, look at the overall similarity score. Journals accept similarity scores below 15-20%. Even if your draft returns a low similarity score, deep dive into the details under the “Match Groups” section of the report. 🔰Step 3: Address Similarity Cases by Writing in Your Own Voice If an identified source is relevant to your work and properly cited, it might have been flagged because it contains expressions commonly used across sources. This issue is not uncommon in academic writing, because the same phrases and expressions tend to be found across papers. To address this, introduce variety in your text. You may use Paperpal’s Language (under the Edit menu) and Rewrite features to speed up the process, but make sure that you retain your unique style. 🔰Step 4: Cite Overlooked Sources If any source is relevant to your work but hasn’t been cited, or is cited incorrectly, address the missing citation. Use Paperpal’s Cite feature to generate citations and reference lists in your desired style and insert them in your text. Merely adding citation to flagged text is generally not enough if the original wording is too close to the source. 🔥Here are 2 ways to to work around this: - If the flagged text is an exact phrase or sentence from the original source: Use double quotation marks, and then add a proper citation with page number if available. Example: "Earth revolves around the Sun in an elliptical orbit" (Author, Year, p. XX). - If you prefer not to use quotations, rewrite the idea clearly in your own words, and provide a citation. Example: Earth follows an oval-shaped path around the Sun (Author, Year). Find it helpful? Join us here for more: https://chat.whatsapp.com/EzDEjqwpZTB1mOEdep9h3o